Teen Hurt Whacking Bullets With Hammer

WTOP News ^ | 05/14/2007

[MrB]

That was my thought - just offer to “sweep up” at closing time, it would be a mutually beneficial situation.

[CGTRWK]

An employee of Capitol Scrap Co. in Albany said Monday the business pays $1.70 a pound for scrap brass shell casings.

A .223 case weighs about 95 grains, about 75 to a pound. So this brilliant young entrepreneur was wasting live ammo - easily worth 20 cents a round - to sell the brass for 2.3 cents.

[GourmetDan]

I guess it didn’t occur to him to just sell the .223 rounds?

Prolly worth more than scrap brass...

[GourmetDan]

I guess it didn’t occur to him to just sell the .223 rounds?

Prolly worth more than scrap brass...

[Deguello]

Meth Heads are not that advanced.

[Names Ash Housewares]

[skinkinthegrass]

...and He’ll get his 15 minutes of Fame. :/

[Calvin Locke]

About the time I was 12 or 13 year old, around 1970s, a cousin told me that a friend of his was wedging .22s under the barn door and whacking them with a hammer.

Naturally, one casing eventually went backwards, into the kid's, thigh.

There was one of those movies based upon a book of rememberances of a girl growing up. She was a young British girl, and her father was farming or ranching in Africa. One of the African kids went into the storage shed, and took some blasting caps to whack at with the expected result.

Maybe that kid got the idea from the farmer setting off a couple for Guy Fawkes day, I don't quite remember.

[AngryJawa]

.223 and all ammo prices have skyrocketed lately. It's a good $.40 - .50 per round these days.

This information does not, however, change the fact that this kid is a drooling moron.

[CPOSharky]

Loaded rounds should be worth more than than scrap brass. Even empty brass should be worth more for reloading than as scrap.

[chadwimc]

Any reloader worth his powder has a “bullet puller”. It’s a hammer that a person puts a live bullet into, then whacks it on something hard. Inertia makes the lead part pop apart from the casing, thus saving the bullet and powder. If the powder is old school military surplus, it goes on the lawn and garden for fertilizer.

Did anybody ever take a whole roll of paper caps and whack ‘em with a hammer???

[Responsibility2nd]

There you go!

That’s the pic I was looking for.

Damion M. Mosher, as portayed 60 years ago by Warner Brothers.

[DemEater]

Anybody know if bullets eventually become unstable with time? Do they have a shelf-life?

[glock rocks]

- or this -

[AngryJawa]

Any reloader worth his powder has a “bullet puller”.

Not true.

Some of us don't make mistakes. 8^)

[dangerdoc]

If he was discharging the bullets for the recycle value of brass, it is clear he was not paying for the ammunition. Was he a theif? I had a thousand rounds of 308 stolen from a storage unit, probably by a moron like him.

It is also a horrible waste of ammuntion.

[MinuteGal]

"Hold muh Extremo Citrico Tangerine Rain Gatorade for a few minutes, willya, buddy?

Leni

[glock rocks]

Anybody know if bullets eventually become unstable with time? Do they have a shelf-life?

Most my bullets become unstable beginning about a half second after the range timer beeps; however, shelf life can be decades in a controlled environment.

[Arrowhead1952]

I am having a real tough time trying to type my reply after reading the current responses, but this kid is not ready for the real world. I am LMFAO on this one.